Jar and bottle holder.



S. M. BROWN.

MR AND BOTTLE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MA! n. 1911.

1 ,284,579. Patented Nov. 12, 1918 Samuel I LEIfUVVH.

SAMUEL M. BROWN, 01' WILKINSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

JAR AND BOTTLE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Application filed May 11, 1917. Serial No. 168,016.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of lVilkinsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Jarand Bottle Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to receptacles, and more particularly to aholder, for bottles, jars, and the like, to retain the same fromoverturning.

An object of the present invention is to provide a holder of thischaracter which may be attached or suspended within a basket, or thelike, and within which a bottle or jar may be placed for holding thelatter from tilting over incident to the jarring and vibration of thebasket when carried.

The invention further aims at the provision of a holder composed ofstock material, such as wire, and wire meshing, and a holder of suchpeculiar construction that it may be economically manufactured andcomprises but relatively few parts.

The above, and various other objects and advantages of this inventionwill be in part described, and in part understood, from the followingdetailed description of the present preferred embodiment, the same beingillustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a jar and bottle holder constructedaccording to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same.

Referring to the drawing, the holder comprises a back frame adapted tofit against the inner side of the basket and provided at its upper endwith a pair of downwardly opening hooks 10 and 11 for frictionalengagement over the upper edge of the basket or other support. The backframe is provided with an upper loop 12, and alower loop 13, which arevertically spaced-apart, and alined, and which project outwardly fromthe upper and lower portions of the back.

The frame of the holder is preferably composed of but two lengths ofWire of the desired gage to give sufiicient rigidity to the frame whenformed. One length of wire, the longer length, is bent at one end toprovide the hook 11, and is rolled over at the inner end of the hook 11to provide an eye 14: which extends into the outwardly extending upperloop 12, the same being arched or rounded outwardly from the back frameand bent at its opposite side or end transversely and inwardly toprovide an upper bar 15 which is preferably straight, and which passesnear one end through the eye 14. The length of wire is then bentdownwardly from the eye 14: to form a side 16 of the back frame, and isthen looped forwardly or outwardly beneath the loop 12 to form the lowerloop 13. From the opposite end of the loop 13, the Wire is bent abruptlyupwardly to form the opposite side 17 of the back frame, and is rolledover at the top of the side 17 to form a second eye 18 through which theadjacent end of the top bar 15 passes. The length of wire extendsupwardly from the eye 18 and is formed into the hook 10 as shown.

The second length of wire, which is the shorter wire, engages across theinner end of the lower loop 13 to form a lower bar 19 for the backframe, the opposite ends of the bar 19 being overturned to form eyes forengagement about the inner ends of the loop 13.

The wire frame thus formed is closed in by the provision of a preferablyopen mesh wire body part composed of the back section 20 which iscarried in the back frame, the bottom section 21 which is carried by thelower loop 13, and the rounded front part or section 22, which isstretched vertically between the upper and lower loops 12 and 13.Preferably, the front rounded section 22 is concave at its outer top toprovide a resilient gripping surface for the bottle or jar which isplaced in the holder, to prevent the accidental dislodgment of the jaror bottle.

It is of course understood that various changes and modifications may bemade in the details of construction of the above specifically describedholder, without departing from the spirit of the invention, and beingrestricted only by the scope of the following claim.

I claim In a jar or bottle holder, a body compris-' ing a single strandof wire bent at one end to form a hook, coiled at one end of the hookand extending downwardly to form one corner brace and bent. to form ahorizontal substantially U-shaped loop at the lower terminal of thedownwardly extending portion to form a bottom for the holder,

said wire extending upwardly from the botshaped loop coiled about theconnecting portom parallel to the downwardly extending tion and finallybent to form a second hook,

portion and spaced therefrom, said wire a brace wire connecting thelower ends of 10 further bent to extend across from the upper saidparallel portion, and a wire mesh seend of one parallel portion to theother, and cured to said strand of wire and forming pass through saidfirst named coil, bent to front, back and bottom for the holder.

form an upper horizontal substantially U- SAMUEL M. BROXVN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents Washington, II. C.

